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Box written by Tsune KAWAI (Kanjiro’s wife)
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D27.5cm H5.5cm
Doro-hakeme” is an original technique developed by Kanjiro, who noticed the interesting pattern of violent waves left after wiping the cloth with freshly dried mud when redoing an unsatisfactory tsudo-gaki (cylindrical painting). The swirling undulations in the deep indigo of the gosu color express a sense of dynamism. This energetic expression appears to be random, but it seems to approach the viewer with Kanjiro's unshakable will.
Kanjiro Kawai
1890～1966
Kanjirou Kawai was a Kyoto-based potter within the folk tradition of Japanese and Korean ceramics and a key figure in Mingei (Japanese folk art movement). He was a long-time friend of Shōji Hamada, Soetsu Yanagi, and Bernard Leach with whom he co-founded the Japan Folk Art Association in 1926. He refused all official honors, such as the designation of “Living National Treasures,” He often decorated his works with bold, semiabstract blossom motifs, which he painted freely in under-glaze cobalt blue, iron brown, and copper red.
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